Wish that everything should come about just as it does.

Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.

When we act pugnaciously, and injuriously, and angrily, and rudely, to what level have we degenerated? To the level of the wild beasts. Well, the fact is that some of us are wild beasts of a larger size, while others are little animals, malignant and petty.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.

Happiness is an equivalent for all troublesome things.

Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least delightful.